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My Melancholy Blues/It's Late

QUEEN My Melancholy Blues/It's Late (Fantastic 1977 UK double-sided 7" pressed onto 10" acetate. One side features a non-Queen track which isn't unusual as the cost of producing acetates was quite high so both sides were often used, sometimes with completely unrelated tracks or artists. The other side is quite unusual in that it begins with a part of a non-Queen recording, then cuts to the last segment of 'It's Late' before playing the entire album version of 'My Melancholy Blues'. The other thing that makes this item unique is that it was Freddie Mercury's own personal copy - sold at a Sothebys auction in 1996!)

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Product Availability Currently Unavailable - You can request the next copy of this item
Release Year 1977 - 47 years ago
Condition Unless stated otherwise in the description above, all items are in at least excellent condition - so please read our descriptions carefully. We try to sell items as close to Mint condition as possible, and many will indeed be close to brand new and/or unplayed. Others may be 'used' - and all will meet our strict grading and are 100% guaranteed.
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Format 10" vinyl single (10 inch record)
Record Label N/A
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Product Catalogue No ACETATE
Music Genre Rock
Country Comes from UK Comes from 'UK'
 
Tracklisting & More Information

An acetate is normally a transitional stage between the master tape and the finished vinyl record but were occasionally used for a songwriter to convey a song idea to a band or person.

Originally acetates were used for home recording in the days before tape recorders, but since the advent of cassette tape & CDR are now no longer used for providing bands & their entourage copies of today's studio efforts. A machine actually cuts the grooves into the acetate like a lathe.

The acetate is used to assess whether the music has been successfully transferred to disc. It is checked by the sound engineer. There may be only one copy made of a particular recording, sometimes more are cut and sent to the studio and band members for approval.

The acetate comes before making the master, and allows the sound to be checked without great expense.

It is unusual for more than a dozen to be manufactured, so from the collector's point of view an acetate is a rare find indeed! If the recording is rejected the acetate may be the only record that survives. The rejected cut may simply be poor quality, however the artist may have opted to use a different take of the song, if so, the acetate becomes much more precious.

An incredible find & certainly one of only a handful that would have been produced.



10" RECORD  
Recording Artist Queen
Product Title My Melancholy Blues/It's Late
Product Information Queen My Melancholy Blues/It's Late UK 10" vinyl single (10 inch record).
Language All tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.
Additional info Deleted - A deleted or out-of-print item is one that is no longer manufactured. However, we stock thousands of out-of-print formats and we specialise in tracking down out-of-print, deleted and hard-to-find releases.
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